Snapper With Fennel Onion And Tomato Recipes

SNAPPER WITH FENNEL AND TOMATOES

Steps:

• Stir the saffron into the wine and set aside. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the fennel and onion and cook, stirring, until slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add the saffron-wine mixture and olives and simmer until the liquid is reduced to about a tablespoon, about 3 minutes. Add the vegetable stock and cook until slightly reduced, about 2 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper; stir in the parsley.
• Meanwhile preheat the broiler. Pat the fish dry with paper towels. Rub the skin with 3 tablespoons olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large ovenproof skillet over high heat. Add the fish skin-side up and cook until golden on the bottom, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer the skillet to the broiler. Broil until the skin is slightly charred, 6 to 8 minutes.
• Divide the vegetables and liquid among 4 dishes. Top with the fish skin-side-up. Garnish each dish with fennel fronds and finish with gray salt.

PERCH OR SNAPPER FILLET WITH TOMATOES AND ONION

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Coat a baking dish with canola oil thoroughly and add the fillets skin side down.
• Pour the lemon juice over the fish and bake approximately 8 minutes or less, the fish will flake when touched with a fork when done.
• While the fillets bake, heat a medium saute pan over medium heat and add the olive oil to it.
• Heat the oil and add the garlic and onions.
• Once the onions are translucent, add the tomatoes and parsley.
• Continue to saute for approximately 5 minutes over medium heat.
• Remove the fillets from the oven and serve with the tomatoes and onions on top.

RED SNAPPER WITH FENNEL AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Spray a 9x13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in 3 cloves minced garlic, fennel, and minced shallot. Cook and stir until the fennel has begun to soften, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Transfer vegetables to a bowl, and stir in chopped parsley. Reserve cooking oil.
• Season the fish all over with salt and pepper to taste, then stuff snapper with fennel mixture. Use kitchen twine to tie the snapper together in three places. Place the snapper into the prepared baking dish, drizzle with the white wine, lemon juice, and reserved oil. Sprinkle with 3 tablespoons of garlic.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the fish is no longer translucent, and flakes easily with a fork, about 20 minutes.

RED SNAPPER WITH FENNEL & MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Rinse the fish well.
• Cut 3 or 4 gashes on each side of the fish, from top to bottom Salt the gashes and the cavity.
• Heat oven to 450 degrees F.
• Push half the garlic slivers into the gashes.
• Rub the fish with a little olive oil and pour the rest on the bottom of a baking pan.
• Spread the lemon slices on the bottom of the pan, top the lemon slices with 1/2 of the sliced fennel.
• Place the fish on the fennel, spread the tomatoes, mushrooms, wine or stock over and around the fish.
• Add salt& pepper and the remaining fennel.
• Cover with aluminium foil and back for 20-30 minutes.
• Uncover and sprinkle the chopped feathery tops over the fish, continue baking until done apprx 5-10 minutes.
• To serve scoop the flesh from the fish with a spoon and top with the veggies and sauce.

BAKED RED SNAPPER WITH FENNEL-SCENTED TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400&;deg;F. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in heavy medium skillet over medium heat. Add onion and saut&;eacute; until tender, about 8 minutes. Add tomatoes, wine, orange peel, fennel seeds and crushed red pepper. Boil gently until reduced to chunky sauce, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, about 12 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm before continuing.)
• Pour remaining 1 tablespoon oil into small baking dish. Add fish and turn to coat with oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spoon warm sauce over fish. Bake until just cooked through, about 20 minutes. Serve immediately.

BAKED RED SNAPPER WITH FENNEL AND OLIVES

Steps:

• Combine onion, fennel bulb, celery, and olives in a food processor with a slicing blade; process until everything is cut into a slaw-like consistency. Alternative use a knife to cut onion, fennel bulb, and celery into 1/8-inch thick strips and olives into rounds.
• Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet over low heat. Add vegetable-olive mixture and season with salt and lemon zest. Cook and stir until everything is soft, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Spread out vegetable mixture on the bottom of a 9x12-inch pan and set red snapper on top. Drizzle with white wine, olive oil, and lemon juice. Scatter butter on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven for about 8 minutes. Move oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler. Broil red snapper for 2 minutes, making sure that it does not overcook.

SAUTEED RED SNAPPER WITH CREAMED FENNEL AND ONION

Steps:

• In a skillet cook the onion and the sliced fennel in 2 tablespoons of the butter, covered, over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, for 12 minutes, or until the fennel is just tender. Stir in the Sherry and boil the mixture, uncovered, for 1 minute. Stir in the cream, the vinegar, the fennel seeds, and salt and pepper to taste, cook the mixture over moderate heat, stirring, adding the water as needed to thin the sauce if desired, for 30 seconds. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and keep it warm.
• In the skillet, cleaned, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon butter over moderately high heat until the foam subsides and in it sauté the snapper, starting skin sides down, for 3 minutes on each side, or until it just flakes. Divide the onion and fennel mixture between 2 heated plates and arrange a snapper fillet on each plate.